glaives

Tell the people to bring their glaives and mutton spoons!

Big Secrets Benjamin Matvey 2011

But are they halberds or fauchards, glaives or bardiches?

REVIEW: The Living Room James Maliszewski 2008

It begins with this sentence:After ascending seventy-two flights of iron stairs, creeping past tentacled sentinels lurking in pools filled with black water, and silently dispatching wizened old warriors armed with glaives and morningstars that proved a close match for his pistols and poisoned glass knives, Mr. Zealand at last stumbled into the uppermost room of Archibald Grace's invisible tower.

"Life in Stone" by Tim Pratt 2004

It begins with this sentence:After ascending seventy-two flights of iron stairs, creeping past tentacled sentinels lurking in pools filled with black water, and silently dispatching wizened old warriors armed with glaives and morningstars that proved a close match for his pistols and poisoned glass knives, Mr. Zealand at last stumbled into the uppermost room of Archibald Grace's invisible tower.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

The soldiers halfheartedly lowered their weapons, threatening the companions with the broad blades of their glaives.

Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989

Now they ran up to the party, holding their glaives in both hands, their bodies moving with exaggerated swings to the left and right, balancing with the weight of their heavy weapons.

Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989

Akeba was more sedate in his demonstrations of the weapons, tulwars bearing the stamp of the Royal Arsenal of Turan, glaives from far Aquilonia, and even khetens, broad-bladed battleaxes from Stygia.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Akeba was more sedate in his demonstrations of the weapons, tulwars bearing the stamp of the Royal Arsenal of Turan, glaives from far Aquilonia, and even khetens, broad-bladed battleaxes from Stygia.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Grendel's dam in her house under the water, makes one think of other legends of mysterious swords, like that of Helgi, and the "glaives of light" that are in the keeping of divers "gyre carlines" in the _West

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker